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    Time Machine backup across two disks?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dbam987, Jul 25, 2008.

  1. dbam987

    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    Is it possible to setup Time Machine so that some backup's go to one disk and other backups go to another disk?

    To give an idea of what I want to do, I have media files that I'd like backed up on to one of the disks, but the rest of the files should go to a different backup disk.
     
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  2. r0k

    r0k Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes, this should be possible. Though I don't think you can have both of 'em running concurrently. Open TM prefs, then browse to the disk you want to use, then pick files to include/exclude. Open TM prefs, pick the OTHER disk, then pick the OTHER files to include exclude. If you use an add on like time machine editor, you should be able to change the update to something other than 1 hour, but I don't know of a way to have two active TM volumes mounted at one time.

    For me, TM is losing its luster. Any interruption of connection to the Time Capsule and the sparsebundle (disk image) can get corrupted. How does OS X handle a corrupted target disk image? Merely a Kernel Panic! :eek: So I'm starting to take a look at other backup strategies. TM was nice because it was so well integrated into the OS but now my eyes are beginning to wander as I look for options which are more configurable, more reliable and less tightly bound to the OS (Kernel Panics?!?! :eek: :rolleyes: :mad:)
     
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  3. circa86

    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    no, I believe you can only use one timemachine disk, unless you want to corrupt your backups.

    it would definitely be nice for apple to add the ability to use 2 HDD's or more at one time. but I can understand why that may be a problem.
     
    circa86, Jul 25, 2008
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